Posted on Oct 22, 2015
If there are so many problems with the new F-35, why is the Defense Department pushing so hard?
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"Another expensive F-35 glitch won't be fixed anytime soon. Earlier this month Defense News reported the Pentagon had learned the fifth-generation airplane’s ejection seat could cause fatal whiplash for pilots weighing under 136, despite the fact that the seat was designed to handle any pilot weighing between 103 and 245 pounds." Now come on, what is up with this picture? I mean, are all our US pilots in that weight category? And with a price tag of around $400 billion, the F-35 is the costliest weapon in U.S. history. WTF-Over?
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The purpose is not to produce weapons. The purpose is to spend money.
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Capt Walter Miller
The obverse of the MIC is the story of the procurement of the B-17 in the mid '30s. The government negotiators were very, very stingy with the people's money. Don't you wish that were true now?
Any way Boeing had built the B-17 prototype on spec. And they were asking the princely sum of $250,000 a copy. But the government kept snipping away. "Does it really need two magnetos?" "What are variable pitch propellers?" And on and on, and finally were offering if I recall correctly, $207,000 per copy.
Boeing couldn't make the aircraft at that price.
Any way after the war, that type of thing stopped.
Walt
Any way Boeing had built the B-17 prototype on spec. And they were asking the princely sum of $250,000 a copy. But the government kept snipping away. "Does it really need two magnetos?" "What are variable pitch propellers?" And on and on, and finally were offering if I recall correctly, $207,000 per copy.
Boeing couldn't make the aircraft at that price.
Any way after the war, that type of thing stopped.
Walt
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Capt Walter Miller
President Eisenhower said something like -- every dollar you spend on a bomb or a plane or a missile is a dollar you don't spend on a child.
That bird has come come to roost and it is crapping on all of us.
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That bird has come come to roost and it is crapping on all of us.
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Sgt David G Duchesneau
Major, I guess that the decision makers better get off their ass and start kicking tires.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
1SG (Join to see) - They found out found out the helmet is to large for the canopy.
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Let me draw a parallel between this mon$ter and the V-22: There are too many politician$ who, for the economic welfare of their constituent$, that are deeply invested in the $ucce$$ of thi$ program. It cannot fail --e$pecially in an election year.
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